1. Powerful Interactive Whiteboard Strategies for Your Struggling Learners! Katie McKnight, Ph.D Email: Katie@KatherineMcKnight.com Website: www.KatherineMcKnight.com

2. Here’s the Plan for Today 8:30–10:00 am Overview and Advantages of Using Interactive Whiteboards Powerful Literacy Lessons Using Interactive Whiteboard 10:00-10:30 am Break 10:30-11:45 am 30 Effective Writing Mini-Lessons for the Interactive Whiteboard

3. Here’s the Plan for Today 11:45 am-12:45 pm Lunch 12:45-2:00 pm 20 Effective Reading Lessons for the Interactive Whiteboard Using an Interactive Whiteboard in Literacy Centers Using an Interactive Whiteboard for Responding to Literature

4. Here’s the Plan for Today 2:00-2:20 pm Break & SDE Book Table 2:20–3:20 pm Websites and Materials That Enhance the Interactive Whiteboard Experience Putting It All Together Q&A with Katie McKnight

5. Case Study: Hall Memorial School We are going to view this video (about 3 minutes) about a rural school that transformed instruction and learning. Questions to consider as we watch: Why do students become engaged with this technology? What kinds of activities does the video showcase? How do the teachers use the IWB in the classroom? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KQoRivvfFI

6. Kids and Technology Today’s students, millenials grew up with the Internet. Access to unlimited information that can be accessed at any time . Many students prefer to use information found on the Internet because they feel it is more abundant, accessible, an d up-to-date (U.S. DOE 2004). U.S. Department if Education (U.S> DOE), Office of Educational Technology (OET). Toward A New Golden Age in American Education: How the Internet, the Law and Today’s Expectations are Revolutionizing Expectations. Washington, D.C., 2004. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-lCRL19KUQ&feature=related

7. Millenials’ Demographics (Patrick, 2004) Children spend more time online than watching television. 94% of children use the Internet for school-related research. 71% of children rely on Internet sources for projects. 48% of teens think that the Internet improves their relationships. 24% of teens have created their own Web pages or sites. 43% of children (ages 4-18) in 2003 owned at least one wireless device.

8. How about our schools? 99% of schools are connected to the Internet. 92% of instructional rooms have Internet access. 23% of public schools use wireless networks. 8% of public schools lent laptops to students. On average, schools have a 5:1 student to computer ratio. Patrick, Susan (2004) e-Learning and Students today: Options for No Child Left Behind. Speech presented at the No Child Left Behind Summit. Orlando, FL., July 2004. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywsNjTep1JI&feature=related

9. Digital NativesDigital Immigrants

11. Robert Marzano “If an experienced teacher who has been using technology for 2 or more years, uses the board appropriately for 75% of the class time, and has enough training to be confident in his or her use of technology, student achievement gains were highest.” Marzano, R. J. (2009). Teaching with Interactive Whiteboards. Educational Leadership

12. Impact on Struggling Learners Learning Types

13. Reaching all Learners Let’s look at this “short vowel” lesson in a special education classroom. Some questions to consider as we watch: What intelligences are incorporated in the lesson? What are the students doing during the lesson? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdiHbtAACFg&feature=related

14. Technology helps us to Reach All Kinds of Learners.

15. Powerful Literacy Lessons Using Interactive WhiteboardTechnology

16. We’re going to look at two interactive whiteboard lessons Record your Observations About Each lesson

17. What makes a good literacy lesson? Preview the concept/skill. Chunking. Scaffold-building the blocks toward learning the new concept or skill. Pacing- vary tasks and keep the momentum. Interactive-engage the students. Provide immediate feedback for the students.

18. What are your ideas for lessons?

19. BREAK10:00-10:30

20. 30 Effective Writing Mini-Lessons for the Interactive Whiteboard

21. What makes a good writing mini lesson? Let’s look at the Mini Lesson Determine Content Need Keep Them Short Make Them Simple Engage Students and Provide for Interaction Provide Practice Time Consider, “What’s Next?” Evaluate

23. www.kerpoof.com SPELL A PICTURE

24. Magic Key http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/adventures/index.shtml The BBC has a wonderful interactive site called The Magic Key based on the Oxford Reading Tree learning program. The site contains nine literacy "adventures" for children that all work great with the SMARTBoard Interactive Whiteboard. The Magic Key website is aimed at children aged 5-6 years and follows the TV programmes in which Kipper, Biff, Chip, Wilf, Wilma and Floppy go off on their adventures.

25. From the SMART Exchangehttp://exchange.smarttech.com Random Writing Prompts http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=2a22a255-b07a-4e59-8222-ad6fec17e6ab Teaching Figurative Language in Reading and Writing http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=c63d0858-6987-4025-90df-b84b4eef1cd0 Verb Practice http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=8f54abee-fa58-4ed8-b400-70a3496b5d25

27. 6+ 1 Traits Writing http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=9960c6db-9ece-476f-942a-e14f7cf3c64d Antonyms and Synonyms http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=d3b04595-ca1e-4e2c-9086-9cde1704874f Punctuating Direct Quotations http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=853ba317-d167-4599-b5e1-ee37c4fcf6e0 Paragraphs http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=61843b83-277d-4d76-8aa8-64e47e6f1d2b

28. Writing:Parts of Speech Review http://bebright.info/languagearts.aspx Games and resources geared to teach Language Arts through interactive games. Aligned to California state content standards, but adaptable and applicable across state lines. Here’s a fun game for Parts of Speech Review http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/invasion/invasion.html

29. Adjectives Lesson Demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxTCZ665vs&feature=related A teacher demonstrates how she teaches her students how to use adjectives in writing.

30. Writing: Spelling http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmsv/smg/index.html This site uses the Houghton Mifflin basal readers as a guide for generating 6 lists of spelling words per grade 1-8. While there is a limited number of activities per grade, those presented are interactive and can help students with a variety of language skills.

31. Writing: Posters, Newspapers and Comics http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/elci/index.html?launch=true This website shows you how to design effective posters, newspapers and comics by going through the important elements of each. Later you can try out your own designs. A brilliant teaching tool.

32. Interactive Writing Templates http://www.writingfun.com/ Chock full of information about, examples of and blank templates for various genres of writing. Highly interactive, this site can be used for whole class, small group or even individual writing-center instruction.

33. Some Interactive Writing Lesson Samples Book Report http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUp1Pt-TSxg Paragraph Writing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74-QOM3vf_s&feature=related

34. Here Are Some Writing Lessons from Promethean Planet http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en-us/ Note that a Log In and User Name are required for this site.

35. Now What? Now that we have looked at some resources for the interactive whiteboard turn to “elbow partner” and 1. Identify which activities, interactives, and tools that you think you will use in your classroom for writing instruction. 2. Add to our list. Do you know of other engaging tools for the interactive whiteboard that would support writing instruction?

36. Lunch Break11:45 am–12:45 pm

39. What Makes an Effective Reading Lesson? Preview the concept/skill. Chunking. Scaffold-building the blocks toward learning the new concept or skill. Pacing- vary tasks and keep the momentum. Interactive-engage the students. Provide immediate feedback for the students.

40. From the SMART Exchangehttp://exchange.smarttech.com http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=7f168a88-e1e8-47f5-982a-f8f77bda53cc Finding the main idea http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=a64011dc-835a-4ebd-9739-134b8297e834 Inferences and Prediction http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=2ac6cf0e-42b4-4089-b380-a6d6bede881d Sequence of Events

41. From the SMART Exchangehttp://exchange.smarttech.com http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=09eafe88-e699-4615-8c2d-112f0507d68a Story Elements http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=8facdeb7-4de7-4d9d-b7c0-47089da00435 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See? http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=9f875d6b-8fc8-41d4-a3df-6f490fad3925 Poetry Interactive Site

42. PBS http://pbskids.org/lions/ Reading Between the Lions from PBS. There are great games and stories that are IWB compatible. http://pbskids.org/wordgirl/ Wordgirl from PBS teaches kids about words and language. http://pbskids.org/catinthehat/ The Cat in the Hat series features games and videos that support reading skills while learning about science and social studies topics.

43. More Reading Lessons http://eduscapes.com/sessions/pilot/pilotread.htm Reading Practice http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/index/load.htm?f Reading Fluency http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f Learning to Read Video Demonstrating Starfall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t0oZP7tJjA&feature=related

44. More Reading Lessons http://education.jlab.org/reading/index.html Reading Comprehension Passages http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/scrapbook/ Great interactive whiteboard activities that make use of the visual and audio capabilities of new technologies to teach Language Arts skills.

45. http://www.fekids.com/kln/games/wordjungle/ Word Jungle http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/course/game/play.phtml?dest=Lit_v52.dcr&width=500&height=300&ini=lesson2.ini&height2=296 Practice with Literary Elements More Reading Lessons

46. Retelling Stories As we watch this video, identify the interactive whiteboard tools that the teacher uses for this lesson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TowuN6A1No0&feature=related

47. Context Clues Game Students play a carnival game to develop context clue skills. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=045-YDrNxhQ Question: What do we know about gaming and learning?

48. Read Write Think http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/wordfamily/ Word Family Sort http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/bio_cube/ Use this interactive after students have read a biography or an autobiography

49. http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/circle-plot/ Use as a post reading activity where students can analyze the plot. http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/lit-elements/ More appropriate for 6th-12th grade students. Interactive facilitates literary element analysis. Read Write Think

50. http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/plot-diagram/ Interactive plot diagram http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/storymap/ Story Map Read Write Think

51. Reading: Using the Interactive Whiteboard Now that we have looked at some resources for the interactive whiteboard turn to “elbow partner” and 1. Identify which activities, interactives, and tools that you think you will use in your classroom for reading instruction. 2. Add to our list. Do you know of other engaging tools for the interactive whiteboard that would support reading instruction?

52. Discussion Encouraging discussion about reading. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meyX0rVOSK8&feature=related

53. Context Clues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcYQhmq-x28 Graphic Organizers and other tools are featured in this commercially produced lesson.

54. More Language Arts Ideas http://www.ncusd203.org/central/html/what/math/smartboard/episodes/teachingwithsmartboardepisode43.htm

55. Additional Sources for Interactive Whiteboards2:20–3:20 pm

56. Interactive Websites NYTimes Learning Network - Snapshot http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/snapshot/archive.htmlScholastic Homework Hubhttp://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/locator.htmInteractive Online Activities http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.aspMany activities including cartoon strip creator, venn diagram creator, story maps, etc.

57. Interactive Websites Online Language Arts Resourceshttp://its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/communicationarts.htm#Grammar/Usage/MechanicsReading Planet http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/ Students can read and write collaborative stories, interact with words, create poems, and more! Exploring Comprehensive Literacy Resources http://www.lite.iwarp.com/complit2.htmlMany links to websites for vocabulary, word solving, phonemic awareness.

58. Interactive Websites Vocabulary.com http://www.vocabulary.com/ Online games and activities English Exercises Online http://www.smic.be/smic5022/ Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun!http://www.vocabulary.co.il/Alfy's What Am I? Word Game http://www.alfy.com/Brain_Train/ABC/alfy03.asp

59. Interactive Websites Starfall http://www.starfall.com/ Online stories and activities (phonics, etc.) Words and Pictures http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtmlOnline games for kids Goodnight Storieshttp://goodnightstories.com/stories.htmInteractive Language Arts Online Activitieshttp://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/la.html

60. Interactive Websites http://www.readingmatrix.com/directory/pages/Variety of online activitiesApostrophe/Comma Punctuation Gamehttp://www.eatsshootsandleaves.com/ESLquiz.html http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/Online news articles and reading comprehension questions for older students http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/psmain.htmOnline main idea/comprehension practice

61. More Useful Resources

62. More Useful Resources A Wide Variety of General Resources: www.smartboard.cmsce.site.eboard.com An Educational Technology Teacher’s Website: http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/04/07/smartboard-and-calendar-times/ Primary Math Resources http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/15.cfm?s=15&p=250,index Smartboards and EveryDay Math http://smartboardsandeverydaymath.com/

63. More Useful Resources Video Demonstrations on SMARTboards http://www.ncusd203.org/central/html/what/math/smartboard/ SMARTboard Resources and Tips http://smartboardresources.pbworks.com/w/page/15606713/FrontPage http://www.teacherslovesmartboards.com/ http://pbskids.org/whiteboard/ http://www.spinandspell.com/ Ten Interactive Web 2.0 Tools for the IWB http://www.drezac.com/2010/05/ten-interactive-white-board-web-20.html

64. More Useful Resources Great Word Problem Solving Resources with a Thanksgiving theme http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYbSSFzB9qQ

65. A Big Picture Look at All of Thishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

66. How to Reach Me? Email: Katie@KatherineMcKnight.com Facebook: Katie McKnight Literacy Twitter: LiteracyWorld Website: www.KatherineMcKnight.com See my blog for today’s slides. Many more resources are posted in my blog and in the “lessons” section of my website.